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Incumbent Hakainde Hichilema on Sunday pulled ahead in Zambia's presidential election with more than half of constituencies tallied, the electoral commission said, putting him on course for an outright win in the first round.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Qatar has been a key mediator in the latest round of talks between the U.S. and Iran aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for an easing of American economic pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Prepare the pan: Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Lebanese and Israeli negotiators are set to meet for an eighth round of negotiations in September, but a final date has not been set.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Desperately he looked round for something to mask his scent.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Some of my better local farmers markets sell it in sweet little rounds, but you can also buy it from your local supermarket.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Printing is iterative, and more complex designs might require several rounds of revisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Their European campaign lasted just four games as they were knocked out in the Europa League qualifying rounds in August and were relegated with 35 points the following May.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Experts said voluntary cancellations are sometimes an indication that companies believe it will be too costly, or too potentially damaging, to pursue new rigorous rounds of studies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Only after the car rounds the corner do I finally let myself breathe.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
After losing in January’s NFC Championship, they did it once more when they dealt their first rounder to the Kansas City Chiefs for cornerback Trent McDuffie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
They traded their fifth-round pick to acquire Oweh in October and gave the Tennessee Titans their seventh rounder in a 2024 trade for safety Elijah Molden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Matijevich’s go-to lentils to cook are French green lentils, which are smaller and rounder in size compared to green lentils.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
Humans, by contrast, possess rounder heads and much flatter faces.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2025
She grew rounder and rounder and bigger and bigger.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
The spheres are also thought to be the roundest objects on earth.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2018
More than seven feet in diameter, it was, Tom Wolfe once wrote, “the biggest roundest bed in the history of the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2017
The size of Ping-Pong balls and coated with the superconductor niobium, the spheres were the roundest objects ever created by human beings.
From US News ● May 5, 2011
According to Adidas it was the roundest ball ever invented.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2010
And there was the hugest, roundest stove they ever saw in all their lives.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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